and society in general are more important than the individual, we shoot people on suspicion. If the individual is more important, we do a lot to make sure we don't convict anyone who isn't guilty, even at the expense of allowing some guilty people to go free.

And at times we even have the innocent found guilty just as often.

Well we can all agree that this system dose indeed have it's flaws however we should remember that even with it's flaws it is still in use obviously because it works and thats all that seems to matter.

As the saying goes "the system works" it may not seem fair to everyone but enough people believe in it to back it up. However like with any system there is always room for improvement.